All Chapters of The Rogue Luna's Revenge : Chapter 161 - Chapter 163

Brynn Hollis' POVThe followers who came south did not thaw easily.They sat in the eastern meadow like stones, their ancient eyes fixed on nothing, their forms still and cold. They did not speak. They did not move. They simply existed—caught between the absence they had known and the presence they had chosen.Dawn watched them from the garden wall."They are afraid," she said."Of what?""Of feeling. Of being known. Of becoming something they cannot control.""Were you afraid?""I was terrified.""How did you overcome it?""I did not overcome it. I accepted it. And then I chose to feel anyway."---I approached the meadow with Dawn.The followers did not react. They did not turn. They did not acknowledge our presence. They simply sat, still as ice, their breath misting in the cold air."They will not listen to me," Dawn said."They will listen to you. You are one of them.""I was one of them. Now I am something else.""That is why they will listen."---Dawn sat among them.She did n

Brynn Hollis' POVThe Heart of Wolves spoke to me at dawn.Not with words—with warmth. A pulse of light that spread through the bond, through the Circle, through every wolf who had ever chosen love. I felt it in my chest, in my bones, in the deepest part of my wolf.Come.I followed.---The tree stood in the valley where we had planted it. It had grown—not dramatically, not unnaturally. Just enough to be noticed. Its silver-gold leaves caught the morning light. Its roots had spread deep into the earth.I sat beneath it.The warmth grew. The light brightened. And then—a voice. Not the Moon Goddess. Not the Eclipse. Something older. Something newer. Something that had been waiting.You have done well, Brynn."I did what needed to be done."You did more than that. You chose love. Over and over. Even when it hurt."That's what the Circle does."That's what you do.---The light coalesced.A figure stood before me—not a wolf, not a woman, not a light. A presence. Warm and vast and ancient